Google has reportedly removed much of Twitter’s links from its search results after the social network’s owner Elon Musk announced reading tweets would be limited.

Search Engine Roundtable found that Google had removed 52% of Twitter links since the crackdown began last week. Twitter now blocks users who are not logged in and sets limits on reading tweets.

According to Barry Schwartz, Google reported 471 million Twitter URLs as of Friday. But by Monday morning, that number had plummeted to 227 million.

“For normal indexing of these Twitter URLs, it seems like these tweets are dropping out of the sky,” Schwartz wrote.

Platformer reported last month that Twitter refused to pay its bill for Google Cloud services.

  • Flying Squid
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    251 year ago

    It’s a left-wing news outlet. I don’t think there’s anything malicious there in terms of security.

    • @WhoRoger
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      121 year ago

      These blocklists are wack sometimes, I need to keep adding exceptions…

    • TWeaK
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      1 year ago

      Ehh, I get ~3 pages of 3rd party crap, most of which is on block lists. Red = explicitly blocked, 3rd party scripts and XHR blocked by default (I do also block google.com, gstatic.com and facebook.com whenever they’re a 3rd party, but every other red domain is considered dodgy by default).

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      uMatrix FTW

      Edit: Also I should say that if I were to enable things more stuff would almost certainly load up.

      • @WhoRoger
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        31 year ago

        That’s a fact of any news site these days.

        Btw uBlock on FF + Rethink DNS ftw